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Batman – The Beginning

Finding out the true origins of the dark knight might seem simple, but with so many versions and continuity problems, it can be a fairly hard. Batman is such a well known super hero that there is just to many spin offs to get the full truth. With all that in mind, its fairly simple to get the general idea of how Batman came to be.

Batman or Bruce Wayne was son of a very well-off Thomas Wayne and it wasn’t until one horrific night after a cinema that the young Wayne’s path in life would be set into a new direction.. On their way home from the theater, Batman’s family took a wrong turn and ended up in what was known as crime alley, one of the worst areas in Gotham. Here is where Bruce’s direction in life would change. Joe Chill was a lowly thief at the time who found the Wayne family lost in crime alley and took advantage of the situation. It would have been easy enough for the mugger to just take the families belongings but decided to kill them as well right in front of the young Bruce while leaving him at their side. It was a while until the cops had arrived, and when they did there was some questions on what to do with young Bruce. His family trusted butler Alfred Pennyworth took the role of Bruce’s family to keep him out of the foster system.

At a very young age Bruce left Alfred and Wayne manor on a mission to gather everything he could to get revenge for the death of his parents. He traveled to every place he could learning skills and martial arts from every corner of the globe. In his travels he learned how to fight from several different techniques and he studied criminology and other sciences. After his journey Wayne didn’t waste any time with his need for revenge. In the beginning he had no disquise or special tools. Because of his rush into the streets he was almost killed by the ones he was trying to help. He really needed an edge, but had no idea what to do, until a bat crashed into the window and startled him. The fear of the bat would be able to give him the advantage he needed.

Immediately he began working on his ideas. Bruce started building his bat cave. Alfred, being the only one who knew of all of this helped out with guidance. Alfred helped Bruce through his injuries and his mental meltdowns, much like a doctor and psychologist. The fear that The Dark knight had instilled on the criminals of Gotham city had brought the mob to its knees and minor criminals to almost zero. Only the most reputable of people would Batman work with. Besides Alfred, Bruce’s closest ally became Police Chief Gordan. In Batman’s opinion he was one of the few remaining police that hadn’t been corrupted by the mob. They were going to rid the streets of all crime no matter how much effort it took. Batman has now arrived and from here the story goes so many directions that a whole new article or book would need to be written.

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